Frank Lamont
Personal information
Full name Francis Carlyle Lamont
Date of birth (1886-08-09)9 August 1886
Place of birth Ballarat East, Victoria
Date of death 22 July 1963(1963-07-22) (aged 76)
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) South Ballarat (BFL)
Height 164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1911–12 Fitzroy 17 (9)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1912.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Francis Carlyle Lamont (9 August 1886 – 22 July 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The son of John James Lamont (-1918),[2] [3] and Margaret Ann Lamont (1852-1911), née Carr,[4][5] Francis Carlyle Lamont was born at Ballarat East, Victoria on 9 August 1886.

He married Sarah Amelia McDiarmid (1888-1972) in 1908.

Football

South Ballarat (BFL)

Playing for South Ballarat Football Club in the Ballarat Football League, he was selected in a combined Ballarat League team in June 1910.[6]

Fitzroy (VFL)

Cleared from South Ballarat, he made his debut, as one of the seven new players for Fitzroy — i.e., Ernie Everett, Jack Furness, Cliff Hutton, Frank Lamont, Tom Moloughney, Danny Murphy, and Eric Watson[7] — against Melbourne on 29 April 1911: "The maroons have a star in Lamont, the boy from South Ballarat, playing winning [foot]ball throughout" (Melbourne Punch, 4 May 1911).[8]

South Ballarat (BFL)

On 5 June 1912, having played in the season's first two matches, he was cleared from Fitzroy back to South Ballarat.[9] In 1915 he was the team's vice-captain.[10][11]

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 5 July 1915.[12]

He left Australia on 23 November 1915 on the HMAT Ceramic (A40),[13] served overseas with the 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion, and returned to Australia on the SS Armagh which left Plymouth on 5 April 1919 and arrived in Melbourne on 18 May 1919.[14]

He was discharged on 27 July 1919.

Death

He did at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital on 22 July 1963.[15]

Notes

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • World War One Nominal Roll: Private Francis Carlyle Lamont (3821), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Embakation Roll: Private Francis Carlysle (sic) Lamont (3821), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Service Record: Private Francis Carlyle Lamont (3821), National Archives of Australia.
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